Netflix orders Cowboy Bebop live action series

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10 episodes :banderas:

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Netflix orders live-action Cowboy Bebop TV series


Cowboy Bebop is coming to Netflix as an all-new live-action TV series.

The streaming service has greenlit a show based on the original 1998 Japanese animated series.

A live-action version was previously reported last summer as in development, but without a distributor or series order.

Here’s the official description: “Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, and Radical Ed: a ragtag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll even save the world… for the right price.”

Netflix has committed to a 10-episode first season. There’s an impressive lineup of showrunners on board: Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), along with Jeff Pinkner (Fringe) and Scott Rosenberg (Knightfall). Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) will write the first episode.

Here’s the trailer for the original series, which was set in the year 2071, about 50 years after an accident made Earth almost uninhabitable. Humanity has colonized most planets in the solar system, and the Inter Solar System Police register bounty hunters (dubbed Cowboys) to chase criminals.

Cowboy Bebop previously inspired an animated feature film, 2001’s Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.

Shinichiro Watanabe — director of the original anime — will serve as a consultant on the new series, and executive producers include Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, Shin Sasaki, Tetsu Fujimura, and Matthew Weinberg.


 

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Get the guy who played Cable to be Jet. I dnt even wanna contemplate on who would play Faye...i know ima be disappointed:mjcry:
They were saying they had Catherine Zeta Jones in mind back when they were planning to do a live action movie.
 

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One of the VA's was thinking it should be Keanu and Samuel L a little while back.

Keanu and Steve Blum talked about it briefly when they first met
 

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Im terrified.

Live action and anime just don't go over well. There are too many fantastical elements and too much dynamic characterization crammed into the medium to transition well into live action.

There's nobody who could bring the snark and swag of a Hajime Saitou to real life (and he was an actual human being).

Who the fukk can pull off the lackadaisical demeanor of a Spike Speigal and yet switch up that energy and fukk somebody up when necessary?

Who can tap into Alucard's special blend of tragic psychosis and arrogance and pay homage to his sensitivity while being batshyt crazy?

Who is gonna match the sex appeal and deadliness of a Yoruichi?

It ain't happening. I'm doubtful.
 
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